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W. Paul Reeve is Chair of the History Department and Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the U.S. West. His book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, (Oxford, 2015) received the Mormon History Association’s Best Book Award, the John Whitmer Historical Association’s Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, and the Utah State Historical Society’s Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award. In 2023, Deseret Book published his Let's Talk about Race and Priesthood, with a foreword by Darius Gray. He is the recipient of the Utah Council for the Social Studies’ University Teacher of the Year award. He is Project Mana ...more

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W. Paul Reeve The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri by Stephen C. LeSueur is good. It focuses on 1838 and so does not cover as much chronology as F&S. There is not a comp…moreThe 1838 Mormon War in Missouri by Stephen C. LeSueur is good. It focuses on 1838 and so does not cover as much chronology as F&S. There is not a comprehensive history of the Mormons in Missouri that covers 1830 to 1838. Fire and Sword is good. You should definitely look at it. Also look at Alex Baugh's A Call to Arms. LeSueur points to Mormon culpability more than Baugh. Not sure that both of them were necessary, but I think between Fire and Sword, LeSueur's, and Baugh you should cover your bases. If you only have time for one, I'd probably go with LeSueur. If you need something more comprehensive then go with F&S.(less)
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“...[Y]ou are free to hate anyone you choose. That is until you take upon yourself the name of Christ. At which point the right to hate is no longer available to you. - Catherine Stokes”
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“[T]he debate between Orson Pratt and Brigham Young continued long after the legislative session ended. The two men gave life to the two competing explanations for the racial priesthood restrictions in the Church... Both explanations were grounded in an underlying assumption that Black people were inferior to white people and that white skin was normal and black skin was somehow cursed---a deterioration away from whiteness. Rather than trusting Jesus Christ when He told Joseph Smith, 'All flesh is mine, and I am no respecter of persons,' these various explanations favored white flesh over other shades of flesh and implied that Jesus Christ was in fact a respecter of persons.”
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“[Samuel Chambers] explained 'Some think it is small to be a deacon,' but then he countered that, 'I think there is nothing small in the kingdom of God.”
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